Hi y’all,
All of the days continue to run together as everyone is doing everything they can to get that sense of normalcy.
We had several folks in PARR that had significant damage after the storm last week. An unbelievably HUGE SHOUT OUT to Kaylin, who single-handedly kicked off Operation #PARRStrong by rallying anyone, everyone and everything to help those folks…and spending the majority of her time also DOING THE WORK. She was everywhere. You amaze me, girl. We are all so lucky to have you so willingly take this on and leading us to make sure your people are taken care of. Thank you for all that coordination (she never once didn’t respond to a text I sent her!) and keeping everyone updated so they knew how they can help. This group is something else, I tell you.
#PARRpresentations
The storm forced us to cancel our long-awaited nutrition presentation by Lisa Ferrera, but alas…it’s been rescheduled to Fri Sept 22 at 7PM!
Don’t miss this week’s speaker – Camp Gladiator will be coming to discuss cross training for runners – Friday, September 8 at 7PM. Come find out what it’s all about! I think their cult following might rival PARR’s 😉
Then coming up next week is another good one…Foam Rolling and other good stuff from the folks at Airrosti – Saturday September 16 at 6:30PM
Chance for Hope Go Gold Fun Run
For Saturday, there are several folks doing the Chance for Hope Go Gold Fun Run in Silverlake….which is just awesome! The support for this run…runners, volunteers and local Pearland sponsors has been amazing. Online registration for the race is now closed, but they will have registration at packet-pick up (Friday 1-7PM at Wild Pear) and on race-day beginning at 6:00AM until sold out. With the many combinations of 5K/10K/HM/FM folks…that high math is too much for me to coordinate what you need. So I will leave it up to you folks to get your additional miles (or not), depending on what you’re training for and which race you’re running! Just remember the race will start at 7AM. With a bunch of food and kids activities to follow. Lastly…make sure you stay for the raffle (your bib is your automatic entry) – it will be at 8:45…tons of good stuff! And a reminder…they’d love everyone to wear their GO GOLD fun run shirts for Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month.
Shirts
I know y’all are anxious to get your PARR shirts ordered and represent PARR at your next race – the storm definitely added a little delay and we will hopefully have that going in the next week or two. You won’t miss it. Promise.
Saturday Details
While there are a bunch doing the fun run, there are also many that are not…so the plan for Saturday for everyone else will be to meet at Turner Track…and do your thing! This will be the last loosey goosey week, with a race is going on. Next week we’ll make a coordinated effort with the groups starting together. But in the meantime, it’s a great day to meet some knew folks. Not sure who is in your group? START ASKING! Just make sure you know you group color => https://goparr.com/schedules/
FM – 5:15AM – Turner High School Track – 10 Miles – http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/1259785816/
HM – 6:00AM – Turner High School Track – 7 Miles – http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/fullscreen/1259792266/
*Water will be at the Southeast corner of Harkey
Happy runs y’all. Let me know if you have any questions!